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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Clarifying and separating duties between Division of Emergency Management and DEP"
+description: "Clarifying and separating duties between Division of Emergency Management and DEP"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 823"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 823 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Environment", "Public Safety"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-20"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/804165de-8830-4a38-940e-0b6601c2c079"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=823&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "22f82120ac917343e1d45505dc41883fac85cc59ccd23548d008a69cb7357589"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
+---
+
+# West Virginia SB 823 (2025) — Clarifying and separating duties between Division of Emergency Management and DEP
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb823%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=823)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb823%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=823)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb823%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=823)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb823%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=823)
+5. **sb823 sfa rucker _1 3-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb823%20sfa%20rucker%20_1%203-25%20adopted.htm)
+6. **sb823 sfat rucker _1 3-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb823%20sfat%20rucker%20_1%203-26%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rucker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-03-20** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-20** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-25** Committee substitute reported
+- **2025-03-25** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-03-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-26** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-26** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-03-27** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 197) `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** Title amendment adopted
+- **2025-03-27** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-27** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-27** Reference dispensed
+- **2025-03-27** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-03-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-31** Passed House (Roll No. 257) `passage`
+- **2025-03-31** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-31** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-01** House Message received
+- **2025-04-02** To Governor 4/2/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-02** To Governor 4/2/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-08** Approved by Governor 4/8/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-08** Approved by Governor 4/8/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 114, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/804165de-8830-4a38-940e-0b6601c2c079`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+